• apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe
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    18 hours ago

    If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

    If you give me 7.5 billion i’ll do my very best to clean up the ocean too

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      17 hours ago

      That’s like 0.8% of the US military budget for 2025. That’s basically a rounding error

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          15 hours ago

          China’s GDP is going to keeping a billion people housed and fed, and producing more solar panels than the rest of the world combined. The US military budget is going to blowing up brown people.

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            4 hours ago

            Awesome way to say you don’t care about the planet by making excuses for China not picking lint out of its pocket to clean the ocean—and then somehow turning this into an ICE problem.

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              1 hour ago

              Nobody said anything about ICE, we’re talking about the military known for bombing weddings in multiple middle eastern countries and then bombing ambulances when they respond.

              If you have the money to commit atrocities in a dozen countries at once, you have money to spare.